HS Band Observation

Kelly Berdahl started the rehearsal off with a rousing warmup, including a major scale, and a thing he called "Pops", which had students play beat one of a measure of five beats, and then silently count the rest of the beats, and come in one beat one a note higher in the scale. After warming them up, he sightread a couple of songs with the group, which they performed quite well, and then they turned in the set of those pieces. Kelly ran the rehearsal very effectively and in a timely manner, and kept the group busy the whole time. The ensemble themselves were quiet during rehearsal and there weren't many distractions or disruptions, but this might have been due to the fact that the baton he recently threw/stuck in the wall was STILL stuck in the wall. :)